What did Iris Murdoch mean by: The most interesting things are always happening behind one. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Food, Reading, Thinking, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Real misery cuts off all paths to itself. Author, August 28, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Despair, Inescapable, Isolation, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Cursed, Despair, Sleep, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Another person’s illness is often harder to bear than one’s own. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Comparison, Compassion, Empathy, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Avoidance, Creativity, Religion, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
… a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Consequences, Ethics, Supernatural, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ A death is the most terrible of facts. Author, August 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Fear, Grief, Mortality, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ To be a complete victim may be another source of power. Author, September 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Identity, Power, Victimhood, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation. Frederick Sommer Photographer · USA
Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman. Jeet Aulakh Author · India
